Red Bull: on the motorists side

In the F1 races, Red Bull are fielding a team. In Bristol a while back, they also had a vehicle on show in Clifton

Yes, it was just an electric thing, but it was on our side

Proof: THB61S is on double yellow lines, has a tax disk and two parking tickets!

[photo by Martin of Bristol Culture] 

Clifton Downer

Those Bristol roving traffic wardens really are a nuisance. They've taken to visiting places without any yellow lines. Luckily for WV56HSF they haven't yet been to Pembroke Vale, but we're sure it's only a matter of time before they do.

We think it's fine when they pick on the Redland Mums, after all if you live outside the catchment area of a school, but manage to get your child into it, you can't be expected to fully understand the etiquette attached to driving and parking in the 'hood.

But over here in Clifton, we pay proper road tax, and like to send our kids to public schools. We all have cars, and nobody important walks in our streets. Yes, poor people, the blind and the elderly may have to use pavements and take trains, but we're far too wealthy to worry about them. Which is why we're miffed that P32OSX and AK55BFY have been ticketed for obstructing dropped kerbs.

It appears that Bristol City Council (who seem to think they own the pavements) want to persecute us for simply parking where it's most convenient.

Of course, parking fines are nothing to the good residents of Clifton. So we'll just carry on.

Bad timing

The van BK58CNV chose a bad day to park on the double yellow lines on the ASL on Bath Buildings, hence the ticket on the windscreen.

The road was closed while a 30T load got delivered by HGV, and PCSOs were manning the junctions to make sure nobody tried to turn into the road. With the police by the van for a number of hours, eventually one of them was bound to notice it and ticket it.

Unlucky!

Double Jeopardy 2

Back in June we covered the unfair persecution of a motorist, purely because they had the temerity to park across a dropped kerb.

It seems this sort of behaviour by uncaring, irresponsible council officials is still going on. Poor old YL04ZWW has been targeted in the same way, with a ticket on two successive days.

Our roving reporter did re-visit the site on the third day, but sadly the Mini had gone. We suspect the evil council took it to the car-pound to be crushed, but it could be (this is Redland after all) that some kindly neighbour contacted the owner, who then flew back from Barbados, and parked somewhere else.

We just hope it wasn't here, where unlucky R125SLB, has also been persecuted for nothing more than inconveniencing a few children on their way home from Redland Green school.

Monty: persecution

A car on a corner, nothing unusual there. Room for a pedestrian to get past.

But for some reason, today, LK54RZA sports a ticket.

Why are the police cracking down on the historical rights of Montpelier citizens to park wherever they can?

Convenience

With the advent of new convenience stores about to open in Cheltenham Road (Tescos) and Gloucester Road (Sainsbury's), we're impressed to see Bristol City Council's Traffic Wardens at the forefront of a new trend in convenience parking ticketing.

Here's CE02PVT, an early beneficiary of the new regime. Look - double yellow lines, so you'd expect a ticket.

And yes, it's there. But conveniently it's been delivered right to the driver's door.

Coolio.